M. Najeeb Shafiq, an associate professor of education, economics and international affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, will lecture at Washington and Lee University as part of the Winter 2016 Global Fellows Seminar: Tradition and Change in the Middle East and South Asia. His talk will be at 5 p.m. in Hillel 101.Shafiq’s talk is sponsored by the Center for International Education with the support of the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation.He will speak on “Is Education a Panacea? Evidence from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.” He will examine the link between educational attainment and support for suicide bombing, democracy, war and corruption using empirical methods and data. He will finally show his results and what they suggest.The talk is free and open to the public.